Prospective Graduate Students
The WELLab is accepting applications for PhD students in the Social & Personality or Aging & Development area (applications due Dec 2024 for Fall 2025 start date). Prospective graduate students should be interested in one or both of the following research topics:
- Wellbeing structure and change: The WELLab is interested in understanding what wellbeing is and how it functions: both broadly construed wellbeing as well specific components such as positive emotion, sense of purpose, life satisfaction, and social connectedness. We are especially interested in how different components of wellbeing fluctuate and change across time in daily life and across the adult lifespan.
- Wellbeing and healthy aging: How does wellbeing influence physical and cognitive health and risk for age-related diseases? Conversely, how do health events (e.g., stroke) and health changes (e.g., cognitive decline) influence wellbeing?
In addition to the above content areas, prospective students should be interested in learning most of the following methodologies:
- experience sampling methods
- longitudinal methods
- secondary data analysis
- statistical modeling
- coding in R
- open science practices
- coordinated data analysis (optional)
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Our undergraduate research positions for the 2024-2025 academic year are currently full.